Originally Posted by
WideScreen
Actually, I think, Russia will simply produce "court documents", with a legal binding confiscation of all these aircrafts, stating the new legal ownership of these aircrafts is in Russia. And, then, China will say: "OK, these are legally owned by a Russian company, etc". If there is an ownership dispute, please first go to court, before we take action on this. So, yeah, I do have some doubts, whether the China mandatory ownership proving is going to make much of a difference. The only difference is, that China can now state they did take action.
Russia is a signatory state to the Capetown convention, if they have a Russian court order saying change of ownership, that still has to be registered on the international registry for it to be recognized. They wont get recognized as the previous owner and the international registry will not accept a Russian court document as a legal change of ownership as the binding lease contract states the only venue that matters relating to the contract will be heard is in London.
The Russians would need to apply to the London courts to recognize the Russian court order which will never happen.